You know, Linux24 years old.

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Author: User

In April 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, started working on his own operating system. 24 years ago today, August 25, 1991, he published the first announcement of Linux in Usenet's Comp.os.minix newsgroups, announcing the birth of Linux. The following is a message written by Torvalds in the year:

Path:Gmdzi!UNIDO!Fauern!IRA.Uka.de!Sol.Ctr.Columbia.edu!Zaphod.MPs.Ohio- State.edu!Wupost!uunet!Mcsun!News.funet.fi!Hydra!Klaava!Torvalds

  1. from :  torv @klaava helsinki FI  ( linus   benedict   torvalds )

  2. Newsgroups : Comp . OS . Minix

  3. Subject : What would do you like to see most in Minix?

  4. Summary : Small Poll for my new operating system

  5. Keywords : 386, preferences

  6. message - id : &NBSP; < 1991aug25.205708 9541@klaava helsinki fi >

  7. date : &NBSP; 25 &NBSP; aug &NBSP; 91 &NBSP; 20 : 57 : 08  gmt

  8. Organization : University of Helsinki

  9. Lines : -

  10. Hello Everybody out there using Minix -

  11. I ' m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won ' t isbig and

  12. professional like GNU ) &NBSP; for &NBSP; 386 ( 486  at clones &NBSP; this  has been brewing

  13. since April , and is starting to get ready. I ' d like any feedback on

  14. Things people like/dislike in Minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat

  15. (Same physical layout of the File-system (due to practical reasons)

  16. Among other things).

  17. I ' ve currently ported bash (1.08) and gcc(1.40), and Things Seemto work.

  18. This implies that I ' ll get something practical within a few months, and

  19. I ' d like to know what features most people would want . any suggestions

  20. is welcome , But I won ' t promise I ' ll implement them :-)

  21. Linus (torv ... @kruuna . Helsinki . fi )

  22. PS . Yes - it's freeof any Minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.

  23. It is not protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never

  24. Would support anything other than at-harddisks, as that ' s all I have :-(.

In September of the year, Linux Kernel 0.01 was released to an FTP server (ftp.funet.fi) on the Finnish University and Research Network (funet). There were only 10239 lines of code at that time. By October, 0.02 had been released.

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You know, Linux24 years old.

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